Nine Inch Nails: Closer (Uncensored)

Shortly before the Nine Inch Nails video for Closer came out, a girl I knew was showing around a photo of Trent Reznor in the black with the ball gag, supposedly as proof that he was her boyfriend. Because Los Angeles is a surreal place, a girl who served me grilled cheese with bacon at Mel’s Diner told me and my pals that she had just been in a video directed by Mark Romanek and she thought that shot was a production still. I don’t know if the first girl was telling the truth and that is why she had a pre-release production still or if brilliant director Mark Romanek replicated a scene from Trent Reznor’s personal life in the Closer video. Either way, my Mel’s Diner waitress really did turn out to be the pixie-looking girl in the video, the goth-industrial version of a video vixen. This is still one of the sexiest songs ever.

Nine Inch Nails “Closer” music video, directed by Mark Romanek.

Lyrics

You let me violate you
You let me desecrate you
You let me penetrate you
You let me complicate you

Help me
I broke apart my insides
Help me
I’ve got no soul to sell
Help me
The only thing that works for me
Help me get away from myself

I want to fuck you like an animal

I want to feel you from the inside
I want to fuck you like an animal
My whole existence is flawed
You get me closer to G-d

You can have my isolation
You can have the hate that it brings
You can have my absence of faith
You can have my everything

Help me
Tear down my reason
Help me
It’s your sex I can smell
Help me
You make me perfect
Help me become somebody else

I want to fuck you like an animal

I want to feel you from the inside
I want to fuck you like an animal
My whole existence is flawed
You get me closer to god

Through every forest above the trees
Within my stomach scraped off my knees
I drink the honey inside your hive
You are the reason I stay alive